Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, CA, Sept 2021 – present • Bioengineering (Neuroengineering track)
Master of Science, MS, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, May 2020 • Electrical Engineering
Bachelor of Technology, BTech, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India, May 2016 • Electronics and Communication Engineering

Research experience

Gulati Lab, CNSM, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA, Sept 2021 – present • Working on subcortical cerebellar brain-machine interfaces for neuroprosthetic control
Integrated Neuro-Prosthesis Lab, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Aug 2018 - May 2020 • Engaged in research on developing methods of sensory feedback/augmentation for robotic-human interfaces and neuroprosthetics
MuSAE Lab, INRS-EMT, Montreal, Canada, May - July 2015 • Utilized numPy, sklearn, etc. in python to design a self-paced Motor Imagery BCI system that can be used for real-time application without the need for extensive training (a few mins per user) or high computation power. Hacked an Emotiv Epoc+ for EEG acquisition in the sensorimotor area for easier online applications.

Engineer, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, July 2020 – Aug 2021 • Worked on eXtended Reality(XR) software development, virtual reality controllers
Software Engineer | Canon Medical Research USA (CMRU), Cleveland, OH, June 2020 - July 2020 • Worked on the development of image reconstruction software for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
GPU Software Intern, Samsung Advanced Computing Lab (ACL), San Jose, CA, May 2019 - Aug 2019 • Built an independent library for converting internal GPU format memory buffers to human interpretable outputs(raw/PNG) & vice-versa, for debugging/testing various tools and GPU drivers
Engineer, Qualcomm, Hyderabad, India, July 2016 - Aug 2018 • Developed & supported NFC (Near Field Communication) on Android utilizing C/C++/Java for support across layers (kernel driver, middleware/HAL, apps) for different Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms • Owned and coded various test utilities (factory testing, etc.) in C and test automation scripts in python saving significant repetitive developer test effort and easier factory testing

Abbasi, Aamir, Rohit Rangwani, Daniel W. Bowen, Andrew W. Fealy, Nathan P. Danielsen, and Tanuj Gulati. “Cortico-cerebellar coordination facilitates neuroprosthetic control.” Science Advances 10, no. 15 (2024): eadm8246.
Simpson, Benjamin K., Rohit Rangwani, Aamir Abbasi, Jeffrey M. Chung, Chrystal M. Reed, and Tanuj Gulati. “Disturbed laterality of non-rapid eye movement sleep oscillations in post-stroke human sleep: a pilot study.” Frontiers in Neurology 14 (2023). (*co-first authors)
Rohit Rangwani, and Hangue Park. “A new approach of inducing proprioceptive illusion by transcutaneous electrical stimulation.” Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 18, no. 1 (2021): 1-16.
Rohit Rangwani, and Hangue Park. “Vibration Induced Proprioceptive Modulation in Surface-EMG Based Control of a Robotic Arm.” In 2019 9th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER), pp. 1105-1108. IEEE, 2019.

Teaching Assistant | University of California, Los Angeles, CA, Jan 2023 – Mar 2023 • Lead a discussion/lab section for Machine learning & data-driven modeling in Bioengineering (BIOE175)

American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship, Jan 2023
Team placed 3rd in UCLA Cross-campus Innovation Challenge, May 2022
Team placed first in Cleveland NeuroDesign Entrepreneurs Workshop, Aug 2021
Electrical and Computer Engineering Departmental Scholarship, Texas A&M University, Aug 2019
MITACS Globalink Research Internship award (for a fully funded research internship in Canada), May 2015

Mentor, Aug 2019 - May 2020 • Mentored one undergraduate student in INPL lab at Texas A&M
Mentor @ Innovation garage, Dec 2014 - June 2016 • Hardware mentor at Innovation garage, NIT Warangal, India • Organized mutiple event inclduing hackathons, and mentoring hundreds of undergrad students on multiple microcontroller/multiprocessor dev boards

Volunteer work (content for a monthly newsletter) for NeurotechX, 2018-
Neuroengineering field representative, Bioengineering Graduate Association (BGA), UCLA, 2023-24 Academic year